Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.
Pastor Kim asserts that Galatians 2:20 is the key to the Christian life because it is the power of the gospel for everyday life. It is the linchpin to helping us overcome the fear of others in particular.
- Explain the principle of how the fear of man is a form of worship.
- In what way(s) does fear of man show up in your life? (e.g. people-pleasing, compromise, holding back the truth, flattering, lying, social anxiety, living as if we are beholden to others, worrying what people think of us, fearing rejection or humiliation, avoiding conflict instead of resolving it, indecisiveness, struggling to say “no,” giving in to peer pressure, worrying about appearance, hating criticism, materialism, busyness, anger, socializing only with the “right” crowd,…)
- What faith are you putting in others to provide for you what you long for? What do you think your idols will give you instead of God? How might these responses directly or indirectly reflect an ungodly idolatry of people?
- How does this response derail you from worshiping God? How does it prevent you from loving others?
- Spend some time humbly confessing your idolatry to the Lord.
- Think on these two truths from Gal. 2:20: 1) God loves me, and 2) Christ gave himself up for me. In light of your struggles to worship God rightly, how might these two truths change how you respond and live?
- Pray that the Lord will build on these discoveries in next week’s sermon..
Other resources:
- Reflect on the new song introduced this week, “No Longer” (Brook Hills Worship)
- Review Pastor Tim’s sermon on Gal. 2:11-16 (also on the fear of man), the context for this verse.
- Read When People Are Big and God is Small by Ed Welch.
